In interest of not rambling on and on about this weeks plot, like I did last week, here are a few quick plot bullets, and then we’re chat a bit.
- Izzie returned to suck the life and joy out of every room she entered.
- Derek took on the Chief’s alcoholism after some tricky maneuvering the laws of the post-it.
- Callie got a nasty case of the chicken pox and was quarantined so that she didn’t become Seattle Grace's own personal outbreak monkey.
- Mark and Lexie came clean to each other about their dalliances. Lexie is relieved and thinks they’re even, but Mark doesn’t take it so hot.
- Alex told Izzie to leave and never come back (for the love of god listen to the man!).
- Cristina told Teddy that she chooses surgery over Owen which Teddy drunkenly tells Owen about a minute later, but Owen isn’t willing to let Cristina give up so easily.
Okay folks, seriously - just keep Katherine Heigl off our TV. I know there are people out there who still care about her character (we are not among them), but can anyone honestly say that her presence added anything to this episode beside awkwardness? It felt like anytime she showed up the pace came to a screeching halt. Even Jackson, the Mercy Wester who we barely know, fit in more comfortably whenever he appeared. I think it’s time for everyone to face that Izzie no longer serves a purpose and should just be put out to pasture. Will she be? Not completely, because we know she’ll be returning again at some point later in the season. Hopefully Shonda do us (and Heigl) a solid and release her from her contract at the end of the season. The dialogue sure implies that she should be done for good:
“I want you to go and be happy and not come back.” ~ Alex
''I can't be here anymore. … I have to start over, I need to start over.'' ~ Izzie
You don’t have to kill her off, just let her go. Maybe she should take a walk in the parking lot of no return.
On the Richard/Derek/Meredith front, was it cruel of Derek to have poured that drink in front of Richard, knowing he couldn’t resist? Maybe a little. Was Derek doing it for the greater good of the hospital, or so he could snag the role of interim Chief? Methinks a little bit of both. In the end it was the right thing to do. Was Meredith in denial of the Chief’s alcoholism because she honestly trusts him (like a father, at this point), or because she was benefiting with specialized education and opportunities? Again, probably a little of both. What’s most important is that the Chief is going to get help and hopefully the hospital can start sucking a little less. Speaking of which, how great was it that Owen was actually hording sterile surgical equipment since they had run out the night before? Back to Derek and Meredith, I like that we can see them argue and struggle like this, but at the end of the day we can see that they’re going to be okay as a couple. PS: It is still a little strange for us to be liking Meredith as much as we do now. She had us all smiles when she invoked the power of the post-it and with her little fist pump in the air later on the episode.
Finally, Callie and her chicken pox killed us. While Izzie was busy sucking the life out of her parts of the episode, Callie was working overtime with the funny to compensate. We loved her descent into madness and trying to threaten/convince Lexie to remove her gauze paws so she could relieve herself of the pain of the thousand itches ("...not funny crazy, bad crazy. Dark crazy. Its make a suit out of someone else's skin crazy...").While it would have been easy to be a little mad at Arizona for pretending that she hadn’t had chicken pox so that she wasn’t quarantined in with Callie, she’s immediately forgiven when she reveals to Lexie that she did it because she is so in awe and in love with Callie that she was afraid that the oozing, itching, crazy Callie might take them past the sexy part of things. In the end she climbs into the bed with Callie and said she doesn’t care if she gets the pox (which of course she couldn’t, but still). Oh, and we finally get to see Callie and Arizona getting frisky in the hospital, which is how Callie’s pox are discovered. Also, according to Arizona, hospital sex is a sure fire cure for headaches. Valuable information for all.
Quotes of the night:
“Izzie leaves and Mark gets a kid, and you two decide the best way to deal is to get drunk and mash your genitals together?” ~ Meredith
“Alex and I, we've done it before. I was recycling, it was like good for the environment.” ~ Lexie.
“It's like if you tell someone their baby is ugly. You know it, they know it - but you don't say it.” ~ Meredith
“You're gonna touch doorknobs and then you'll be the outbreak monkey.” ~ Arizona
“Take off my gauze paws.” ~ Callie
PS: It makes me crazy when they release promo pictures for things that don’t actually end up happening in the episode - but to release a picture with a new character that doesn’t even end up appearing? WTF, guys? This dude is clearly going to be a love interest for Bailey, but I didn’t see him anywhere in this episode. Did you?
How can you say Heigl's character didnt add anything to the episode....it was pretty much the key and most important aspect of the episode. The problem is the contrived storyline that the writers invented to explain Heigl's absence for movies / maternity leave. Why not just have Izzie recovering from cancer. There was no need to split Alex and Isabel. As for sucking the life out of things..Izzie was upbeat and positive..it was Alex who killed everything flat.
ReplyDeleteYes, Izzie was upbeat and optimistic and trying to fix everything, technically, but it was her very presence that felt like a drag.
ReplyDeleteYou know how sometimes you can have two great actors, who are both talented and hot and get along great off screen, but as soon as you turn the cameras on there just isn't any chemistry - no spark? And it becomes weird and awkward to watch, even though you want to root for them? That's how it feels with Heigl - like she and the entire show no longer have chemistry - they just don't mesh anymore. The dialogue is there, and its the same old Izzie, but it just doesn't seem to work anymore.
But again, to each his own. As far as the most important aspect of the episode, I would give that to the Richard/Derek/Meredith storyline, personally.